Jillian Weiss is a writer and educator living in Winston Salem, North Carolina. She was born in North Carolina and spent her adolescence in London as a daughter of Christian missionaries. She writes magical-realist memoir and essays concerned with spirituality, culture clash, and home-building. She currently teaches English and Creative Writing at R. J. Reynolds High School.

Jillian received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her essays are published in Fourth Genre, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere.